I are a huge crackpot now!

I've been an avid follower of unconventional
science since reading "Mysterious Fires and Lights" as a kid, and hearing
crazy stuff about pyramid power and kirlian photography. I've read widely
on theories and observations ranging from respectable unorthodoxy to
raging crackpotism. However, I've never been a "true believer." I've
always given unconventional claims the benefit of the doubt and assumed
they might be true, while hoping that researchers would present evidence
so powerful that there could be little question that a specific phenomenon
exists. Such evidence is rare. This doesn't mean that the underbrush
isn't crammed full of all sorts of real events and discoveries, it just
means that it's very hard to come up with evidence which would convince
everybody; even the staunchest disbeliever.

Now, at long last I've seen something that scared me. As yet there's no
evidence or even any mathematical reasoning for it, but several things
went "click" while I was pondering EM theory late at night. This led me
in a few hours to come up with my very own crackpot theory for the first
time. Yes, I've stepped over the threshold with the sign by the door that
reads "please deposit all of your scientific credibility in bin before
entering." :)

ON THE POSSIBILITY THAT KNOWN PHENOMENA REGARDING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC
NEARFIELD REGION CONTAINS A BLATANT VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL
LAWS OF PHYSICS
William J. Beaty 8/28/99

I've always had a niggling suspicion that toroidial transformers are far
more weird than anyone suspects. If we wind ourselves a toroidial (donut)
inductor and plug it into a 120VAC wall plug, the device will draw a
current but ideally won't draw any flow of energy. However, if we then
wind a big loose 1-turn secondary "coil" around the donut (through its
hole) and short out this "coil", a huge amperage appears in the wire, the
coil grows red hot, and many hundreds of watts are drawn from the donut
inductor and from the wall outlet. Even if the 1-turn secondary is lifted
significantly away from the coil, it still heats up.

Why is this weird? After all, it's just the way that normal transformers
work. But think for a moment. In donut-inductors, the magnetic
field-lines from each turn of wire extend over to the area enclosed by the
next turn of wire, and as a result the magnetic field connects in a
circle, and no field extends past the surface of the donut. Yet the
secondary coil is entirely *outside* the donut, and therefor the magnetic
flux never touches it. We can even use a large, narrow toroid (a
hoop-like primary coil) and wind a floppy secondary over it so that the
turns of the secondary coil remain many inches away from the wires of the
primary and many inches away from the magnetic flux it encloses. The
question arises: how does the magnetic field inside the donut-inductor
create a current in the secondary coil if no magnetic flux comes anywhere
near the the secondary coil? Electronics students always ask this
question. The answer in the past has always been that it is simply a law
of physics and a part of Maxwell's equations.

My suspicion that the above effect might hide profound mysteries is
greatly amplified by the fact that mainstream scientists aren't intrigued
by this effect. They essentially have unilaterally DECLARED IT TO BE
UNINTERESTING. This is a strange position for a scientist to take. If
something is strange and not quite explicable, wouldn't it stimulate their
curiousity? Instead it does the opposite! I'm very aware that similar
situations are very common throughout modern science. It's a sort of
hidden disease that penetrates every facet of science, and twists science
into something that is entirely different than what scientists believe it
to be.

The same "disease" once caused the scientists of old to declare
"electricity" to be entirely separate from "magnetism" until the ancient
equivalent of a high school science teacher accidentally placed a compass
next to a wire during a classroom physics demonstration, thus proving that
the earlier declaration was a fantasy based upon arrogance rather than a
learned conclusion based upon experimentation. Up until recently the same
"disease" caused contemporary physicists to dismiss the vector potential
in Maxwell's equations as being an unimportant, mathematical abstraction,
and this situation held for many decades until Bohm/Anarohov stunned
everyone by showing that the Vector Potential had an important and
unmistakable impact upon the everyday world.

The field around a donut-inductor is odd because it acts as if it cannot
be shielded. If we try to place a metal shield between the primary and
secondary of the donut-transformer, this simply creates another "shorted
secondary winding" on the transformer. The shield becomes hot and draws
an additional energy-flow from the wall plug, but as long as the
resistance of the windings is low, this won't stop our original secondary
from drawing its own, independent energy flow. Apparently the
"circles of voltage" surrounding a donut-transformer are unshieldable.

This might be weird, but unless we can take the phenomena apart and
analyze it, we can make no headway. For example, what happens when we
remove the
transformer's secondary coil to a great distance from the primary? We also
must make the diameter of the entire donut-inductor larger, since the
secondary
must still thread through the "hole in the donut". If we do this, we have
not "taken it apart" at all, because it still remains as a functioning
transformer. If only we could unwind the secondary partially, and see
what happens when we induce voltage in half of a turn, rather than in a
single complete turn or in an integer number of complete turns. If our
transformer only has a half-turn as its secondary coil, won't it behave
quite differently than a conventional transformer? But unfortunately a
fractional-turn in a transformer winding is impossible.

Also I've always wondered if the energy-flow between primary and secondary
of a transformer is instantaneous or if it obeys the speed of light. It
seems as if there's no way to test this, because if we make the
transformer bigger, we must lower the operating frequency so that the
secondary coil stays within the "nearfield" region. We also must stick to
a low frequency, otherwise the whole transformer will start acting like a
conventional radio antenna, and we'll no longer be analyzing a
transformer, we'll be analyzing a radio transmitter which broadcasts to a
distant "loop antenna" (the secondary coil becomes this "loop antenna.")

This problem remained stuck in my mind since high school. Why did I not
just drop it and get on with things, like all the rest of science
apparantly has done? I did not, because I take intuition seriously. My
intuition has led me into many facinating places. Conventional science
seems publicly to regard the intuition as irrational and therefor
nonexistant (this though many scientists *individually* take their
intuitions seriously). My intuition led me to do the opposite of modern
science: assume that "inexplicable phenomena" are fiercely important,
rather than to assume that they are embarassing mistakes and crackpottery
which must be disparaged. My intuition led me to take the "crackpot
physics underground" extremely seriously, to follow BBSs like Decker's
KEELYNET for years, and to provide several internet forums and a large
website dedicated to the "dark underbelly" of science which most
scientists prefer would just go away. My intuition led me to study at the
feet of Tesla, rather than regarding him as some sort of crackpot/fraud
who claimed to have really invented radio, and who thought that he could
transmit megawatts across thousands of miles without wires.

OK, we have the initial mystery, and we have the requisite "Lunatic
Ravings" which attack the closed-minded scientific
preisthood/sheep/orthodoxy. Now on to the meat of the matter! :)

The key to the mystery of the toroidial transformer is in the Nikola Tesla
concepts. If you *know* that Tesla was a crackpot, you might as well just
stop reading right now, because the rest of my paper is just a waste of
good eye-tracks.

Tesla's energy-transfer system was based on huge tesla coils, but it was
also based upon a strange little device: a tiny coil/capacitor device
which can reach out and intercept vast flows of energy even though it is
far, far smaller than the wavelength of the radio waves which Tesla was
broadcasting. (See ENERGY-SUCKING ANTENNAS for more info:
http://amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html). These energy-receiver devices
are not unknown to modern science. They explain how atoms can intercept
light waves even though atoms are thousands of times too small to behave
as efficient radio antennas. (See the papers by Chris Bohren
Spaniol/Sutton, and others in the references of tesceive.html.)

There's something weird about these papers. They imply that atoms are
surrounded by a vibrating "nearfield EM" field. In my experience such a
field is not taken seriously by modern physics. I've never heard about it
in all my reading. After all, atoms supposedly emit and absorb
photon-particles, they don't spew out EM fields when no photons are being
emitted or absorbed. Yet if these fields are real, they should connect
with many other phenomena in physics. These "energy sucking" fields
appear to be a *possible* hole in physics which *may* lead to amazing new
realms of research.

They do lead to one thing: an interesting device which may simply be an
exotic sort of transformer, and which might let us do some interesting
investigations of the physics of the toroidial inductor, but which also
might be a way to directly tap into the infamous "Zero Point Energy" field
of empty space and light lightbulbs, run motors, etc. Perpetual Motion!

Build yourself a capacitive-mode "energy sucking antenna" (the kind that
has an electrically-small dipole antenna connected to an RLC resonant
circuit of extremely high Q-factor). Place it near a toroidial inductor.
Power the inductor with AC (perhaps the frequency should be high?) The
frequency of the RLC tuned circuit must match the frequency of the AC
drive of the donut-inductor. Align the short dipole antenna so that it
acts like a sort of "fractional turn" surrounding the toroidial inductor.
Measure the energy flow going into the donut and coming out of the tuned
circuit. Move the dipole antenna so it is no longer within the nearfield
region surrounding the donut-inductor. I suspect that the output wattage
will not match the input, and that excess energy comes out of the device.

Obviously this blatently violates Conservation of Energy. Not only that,
it also violates the spirit of Newton's laws themselves, because the donut
inductor "acts upon" the tuned circuit, yet the tuned circuit is
self-shelding and cannot return the favor. A tail-chasing effect would
arise, somewhat like the electrical equivalent of an "Inertialess
spaceship drive", and energy would apparantly come from nowhere.

According to conventional transformer theory, the fields outside the
donut-coil should drive the short dipole, the dipole should store energy
in the tuned circuit, this oscillating energy should build up
continuously, and an intense e-field should appear on the dipole antenna.
Because of the "Energy-sucking Antenna" effect, this e-field should grab
quite a large hunk of energy-flow from the donut inductor. If my
suspicions are right, then the donut inductor won't be affected: it won't
supply energy to the tuned circuit.

This is flat out impossible.

But as the saying goes, "If it happens, it must be possible." :)

If there is an energy gain, then probably we can wind a small pickup-coil
onto the inductor of the tuned circuit, then connect the terminals of the
donut-coil to this small pickup-coil instead of to the high-frequency
generator. This will form a so-called "stand-alone closed-loop free
energy device." Without some sort of governor mechnism such as some back-
to-back Zener diodes connected across the tuned circuit, the ZPE energy
would build up within fractions of a second and cause a piece of the wire
to melt (or perhaps the whole device would vanish in an immense flash and
a clould of green copper-oxide smoke.)

Shades of Robert Heinlein! Didn't he write a couple of stories about just
this device? I think one was called "Brown Shoes". There was also
another one about a shipload of soldiers who landed on a planet where this
device had been discovered, and the soldiers immediately muntiny against
their "evil" commander and go off into the country to live as they want,
independent of any need for fuel and the political networks which control
people by keeping them dependant upon that fuel.

The above "donut inductor" effect has not been tested. Then WHY the hell
am I rambling on like this? It's all just speculation! Yes. I haven't
even done any MATH on this device. Why am I so excited? Simple: its my
intuition. My intuition screams maniacally that this is the key that
unlocks EVERYTHING. It says that the "hole in physics" can tear open,
topple modern Quantum Mechanics, and unleash a vast torrent which will
change the world overnight. My
vision leads direction to the things that all the "crackpots" have always
been saying (maybe they see the same things?) Einstein was wrong, Quantum
Mechanics is not what it seems, electromagnetic fields have existence
independent of photons, fluid vortices (by electromagnetic analogy)
provide energy and allow airplanes to fly without motors, Tesla was right,
and modern physics is on a dead-end path which resulted from a misstep
that occured many, many years ago. But crackpots have ALWAYS been saying
this! Not me. I have not been saying it, I've only been listening to the
people who do, and I've been hoping that one of them would give some
actual evidence to support their ideas. I only started "spouting the
crackpot line" after seeing the missing puzzle-piece snap into place and
the entire "mechanism" of the "puzzle" suddenly light up and start to
function.

On the off chance that this device is REAL, I decided to add a bunch of
peripheral stuff to this paper. Should the device actually work, this
paper will become famous, and I can use it for "advertising". Paranoid
delusions of grandeaur? Perhaps! :) But remember, I'm still saying that
the effect is untested, that only my intuition is going wild about it, and
I acknowledge that my rational western side does not know what to make of
all of this. My Western Self it sitting back and being greatly
entertained. :)

If the above device works, then the next step is to... start my own
"religion!" I've always wanted one of my own to play with. :) Watch out
L-Ron Hubbard! If this device is real, it shows that the several odd
philosophical techniques which I've been using to run my life are entirely
valid after all, and ANYONE could have made this discovery if they had
just decided to stop strutting around like ego-enflated fools and instead
just sit down and concentrate on learning how to take the "blinders" off
and actually gaze past themselves and see the rest of the world. So, will
it be "Tommy?" Or "Stranger in a Strange Land?"

Perhaps the world is safe from change and I am just crazy (or an
ego-inflated fool who is blind to the fact.) I have news for you. *ALL*
crazy people are visionaries. They see strange things which no one else
can see. We in the western world despize our visionaries and our
holy-men. They are
embarassing, but much worse, they often tell us things which we simply
cannot stand to hear. We declare them to be incompetent, and the
visionaries themselves come to believe the same, which effectively
silences their embarassing voices. If someone calls me crazy, I thank
them for the compliment. Uh oh, I think I myself hear the men in white
coats at the door! Better send this out before I realize that I'm just
insane, that none of this could possibly be real, and that I need to get a
bit more sleep and to stop damaging my credibibility in front of thousands
of strangers on internet by talking excitedly about shamefully crazy
stuff. And then delete it instead of sending it. Or NOT!

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
- Isaac Asimov
Who's going to be the first to test this? Not me, I'm on vacation and
don't have access to any equipment. Only a fool would waste time testing
such a crazy idea, so I'll probably have to volunteer to be that fool.
Either it will work or it will not (or perhaps it is real, but as with
"Cold Fusion," the first few experiments will be flawed and the phenomenon
will not express itself until far more work is done.) If nobody makes any
fantastic discoveries before I get back, I'll start messing with it. My
"self" doesn't have any good reason to judge that this phenomeon is real.
It's only my subconscious which is almost going off the deep end with
excited yammering.

If somebody DOES take this seriously and start playing with it, and if
there is nothing unexpected hidden here, then I'll just have to blame them
for taking seriously the ravings of crackpots on the internet. And then
pull a "Rosanne Rosannadanna" and say... "never mind."